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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital that has "the immediate effect of making" the unnamed narrator "feel ungainly, gangly in [his] paper gown" (5)?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

2. What is the name of the unnamed narrator's friend who teaches third grade at a "dual-language school in Sunset Park" (10)?
(a) Aaron.
(b) Roberto.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Alex.

3. From what country did Roberto originally hail?
(a) Venezuela.
(b) Peru.
(c) San Salvador.
(d) Cuba.

4. Alex tells the unnamed narrator to remember that he had felt responsible for his mother's diagnosis of what malady?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Shingles.

5. Roberto expresses a fear to the unnamed narrator about which person in his dreams coming to get him?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Joseph Kony.
(c) The Tooth Fairy.
(d) Polpot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alex remarks at the museum that she is how old "and single" (7) in the narrative present?

2. What event had the narrator and his agent just celebrated with a fancy dinner in Chelsea?

3. What three words of advice does the distinguished female author give to the unnamed narrator after they hug their goodbyes?

4. How old is the unnamed narrator in narrative present?

5. The unnamed narrator and Alex are looking at a painting of which historical figure when she asks him to provide the sperm for her child?

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